Hello Im Jack Mezirow and I was born in 1927 in America. I am an sociologist and I am also a professor teaching Adult and Continuing Education at the Teachers College of Columbia. I went to the University Of Minnesota and I received my Bachelors and Masters degree in Social Sciences and Education. I also received my educational doctorate degree from UCLA.
I developed the Transformative Learning Theory. The wordy definition is “constructivist, an orientation which holds that the way learners interpret and reinterpret their sense experience is, central to making meaning and hence learning” (Mezirow, 1991)." I brake it down into two very easy ways. Instrumental and Communicative. Instrumental focuses on task oriented problem solving and determination of cause and effect problems. Communicative learning is about how people communicate their feelings.
In my studies I found out that being reflective on things can help us show why someone did something as a child and why they still may act that way or do something the same way when they are adults. Kids learn from their community and people who are around them. And when reading the book Educational Psychology I found that there are some things that I agree on a lot. I agree a lot with the Sociocultural theory and that theory is "Emphasizes role in development of cooperative dialogues between children and more knowledgeable members of society. Children learn the culture of their community (ways of thinking and behaving) through these interactions"(55). This theory proves that children learn their ways based on who they are around in their community and their actions will be similar to those around them and those actions will follow them to when they are older.
Relevance to the book? Page 55 Sociocultural Theory children learn from their community, Page 8 Reflective teachers can analyze what they did and how they can make it better next time.
Hello Im Jack Mezirow and I was born in 1927 in America. I am an sociologist and I am also a professor teaching Adult and Continuing Education at the Teachers College of Columbia. I went to the University Of Minnesota and I received my Bachelors and Masters degree in Social Sciences and Education. I also received my educational doctorate degree from UCLA.
I developed the Transformative Learning Theory. The wordy definition is “constructivist, an orientation which holds that the way learners interpret and reinterpret their sense experience is, central to making meaning and hence learning” (Mezirow, 1991)." I brake it down into two very easy ways. Instrumental and Communicative. Instrumental focuses on task oriented problem solving and determination of cause and effect problems. Communicative learning is about how people communicate their feelings.
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/transformative-learning.html
http://transformativelearningtheory.com/corePrinciples.html
https://sites.google.com/site/transformativelearning/elements-of-the-theory-1
In my studies I found out that being reflective on things can help us show why someone did something as a child and why they still may act that way or do something the same way when they are adults. Kids learn from their community and people who are around them. And when reading the book Educational Psychology I found that there are some things that I agree on a lot. I agree a lot with the Sociocultural theory and that theory is "Emphasizes role in development of cooperative dialogues between children and more knowledgeable members of society. Children learn the culture of their community (ways of thinking and behaving) through these interactions"(55). This theory proves that children learn their ways based on who they are around in their community and their actions will be similar to those around them and those actions will follow them to when they are older.
Relevance to the book? Page 55 Sociocultural Theory children learn from their community, Page 8 Reflective teachers can analyze what they did and how they can make it better next time.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Handbook-Transformative-Learning-Research/dp/0470590726
http://www.uco.edu/academic-affairs/cettl/TLGuideFiles/2012-03-tl.pdf
http://transformativelearningtheory.com/corePrinciples.html
My presentation on Jack Mezirow and Transformative Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-ewe88y80&feature=youtu.be